Katherine Todrys

Katherine Todrys is a human rights lawyer who specializes in health and human rights issues. She is the author of Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice and is currently writing a book about the health impacts of oil, gas, and petrochemicals on frontline U.S. communities. She serves as co-chair of the New York executive committee of Human Rights Watch, and as a member of the advisory committee of the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights. She also represents children seeking asylum as a pro bono attorney with the Safe Passage Project. As a researcher at Human Rights Watch, she previously documented torture and poor health conditions in Zambian and Ugandan prisons and police abuses against sex workers in New York City. She has also worked with Columbia University’s Earth Institute in Malawi and Ghana. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. from Harvard College.